YouTube Snags Peele’s “Twisted-Ass” Anthology Series WEIRD CITY
Mike Sprague
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Charlie Sanders
YouTube has given a straight-to-series order to Weird City, a half-hour comedic sci-fi anthology from Jordan Peele (Get Out) and Charlie Sanders (Key and Peele).
Sanders was a writer and co-producer on all five seasons of Key & Peele. He received three Emmy nominations for outstanding writing for the series.
“Writer/creator Charlie Sanders and I collaborated on some Key & Peele sketches that took on everything from the ‘Black Republicans’ to ‘Continental Breakfasts’ to ‘Family Matters’,” Peele told Deadline. “Now, with YouTube, we present a series of comedy-driven twisted-ass science fiction stories that take place in a world close to ours but just a little bit off.”
Jose Molina (Sleepy Hollow) will serve as showrunner and executive producer, and the first two episodes will be directed by Adam Bernstein (Fargo). Peele, Sanders, and Bernstein will also serve as executive producers along with Win Rosenfeld, Tom Lesinski, and Jenna Santoianni, Sam Hansen and Jimmy Miller, and Keith Raskin and Linda Morel.
The six-episode series will debut exclusively on YouTube Premium in 2019.
Synopsis:
An anthology set in the not-too-distant future metropolis of Weird. Each episode is an exploration of issues that pertain to present day life, stories that could only be told now through the prism of sci-fi and comedy.
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